Abstract: Objective： To explore the effect of physical and/or sexual violence from husbands on the sexual and reproductive health outcomes of those married migrant women of reproductive age. Methods: A total of 958 eligible married migrant women of reproductive age were interviewed. Respondents were selected through the community-based multiple-stage sampling method in one urban district in Shanghai. Results: Respondents who had ever experienced physical or sexual violence lifetime or in the past year were significantly more likely to report that they had adverse pregnancy outcomes, symptoms of reproductive tract infections, gynecological diseases, scarce sexual desire, and sexual disharmony than women who had never experienced physical or sexual violence in the same period. After adjusting for potential influencing factors, respondents who had ever experienced physical or sexual violence lifetime or in the past year were 2.05 to 4.79 times more likely to report those above-mentioned sexual and reproductive health outcomes than women who had never experienced physical or sexual violence in the same period. Conclusions: Physical or sexual violence was strongly associated with sexual and reproductive health outcomes among those married migrant women of reproductive age.

Key words: Domestic violence, Battered women, Residential mobility, Reproductive health, Demography